Ya I don't get that either. I think the public sees it as when you lose your hair in middle age, you were an average to good looking guy and now hair is destroying your look, but when it happens to you young that oh thats just genetics and you are supposed to be bald. I find that attitude as complete bull****. I really don't get how premature baldness is not a bigger deal myself. Ya hairloss happens to most men, and some worse than others as they go slick bald, but for someone to lose all their hair before mid-late 20's just isn't normal to me. That's why I had to step on treatment. I'm a pretty conservative dude and watch what I put in my body, but who the hell knows why and how I started balding at 17, so I needed to get on the only proven treatment available at the time. I went from one of the best looking and brightest futured kid in my high school, to well, average at my college. Some women who don't care about hairloss still find me very attractive, but most do and would pass me up for some hipster haircut D bag at the bar.
When my receding got so bad that I could not mask it with styling, my family started making comments. This tainted topic that is not to be openly discussed became my main point of conversation and I finally opened their eyes to how much trauma this unfortunate pair of cards can cause in someone's life. Its like hey people, I didn't gain the freshman 15 here, I'm taking care of myself and the same person, but I got this genetic thing called hairloss that really F's you in the attractiveness category. And unlike the freshman 15 where someone can gain a lil weight and then work out and get back to their normal body weight and be attractive again, this **** is permanent. Once I lose my hair its gone forever until the day I die.
So ya I got on treatment and did all that I could. It took time, but I got results and from suffering from hairloss early I learned the best techniques to hide my loss. So from even minor results and and even more clever styling technique I did not appear as "bald" anymore. My grades went up, my social life improved, my attitude changed nearly about everything. It still is traumatizing to me as I'm on the brink between looking like I have hair and dam that kid is bald. But ya I really don't get it. Like I remember looking at some pics of balding male models and it was some super masculine guy who because of this starting balding young, but still had his hairline. Someone in the comments said something along the lines of, "Oh why so bald so young :wow: ". The guy was like 35! And I realized well ****, if you go bald very young, you are almost doomed because you were never seen as attractive, masculine, dominant, but if it happens later you have a chance because people see you as the man you were SUPPOSED TO BE before hairloss struck you. That's why I don't care how much health I sacrificed in saving a lil hair because the confidence and improved quality of life I gained are totally worth it.
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